BetterMe – Social Alarm Clock. Use friends to help encourage behavior change

BetterMe – Social Alarm Clock uses social humiliation to encourage you to keep your goals. Wanted to loose that 5 pounds promised on New Year’s Eve? Do you keep hitting the snooze button in the morning? Want to get to work on time? This app and your Facebook friends could possibly encourage a change. Read on…

Features:

BetterMe – Social Alarm Clock has three categories: Alarms, Check-ins and Goals. The first functions as a normal alarm clock allowing for setting time & date, alarm sound and recurrence days. Check-ins uses GPS to check that you are in a specific location and at a specific time. Goals are… well… goals you want to achieve by date. It’s required that you connect the app to your Facebook account as it will post missed goals on your timeline. The desired intention is that your friends see these automated posts on your behalf and they either encourage or egg you on about what you’ve missed… and not the actually goal reached.

Though I personally do not see this as a suitable way to reach goals. Voluntary social humiliation may work for some but not the majority of folks. Maybe this type of app can be useful for the first few times this type of activity is seen on a timeline, but if you continually see your friend’s wall posting he’s late for work, or that he hit the snooze button every five minutes or missed his goal to lose ten pounds- you’d probably unfriend him. 😡

Furthermore, I could not get the app to properly send any alarm for Check-ins. Nothing popped up on the phone or FB wall- so if I needed to be at the chosen destination at the certain time I would not have been alerted of it. Alarms pop up on the phone, and if you hit the snooze button they post to FB… continue to hit that button and see how fast you isolate your social profile. In my testing I couldn’t get this to work, there was some kind of error. Lastly, I could not find an alarm feature for the goals area. So this led to the question, “Does this app really offer any true value and worth downloading?”

BetterMe – Social Alarm Clock

BetterMe – Social Alarm Clock – Check Ins

BetterMe – Social Alarm Clock – Goals

BetterMe – Social Alarm Clock – Enter Alarm

BetterMe – Social Alarm Clock – Pick Days

BetterMe – Social Alarm Clock – Enter Address

BetterMe – Social Alarm Clock – Settings

BetterMe – Social Alarm Clock – Facebook Error Message

AndroidTapp.com Rating

(3.1 out of 5)

Should you Download BetterMe – Social Alarm Clock? The design is slick and it can have some potential on the social side if managed properly, but I personally choose to keep frivolous daily goals like waking on time, remembering the milk or making it to a destination to myself rather than badger friends with it. A simple quote can probably help with that, “to be one time is to be late, to be early is to be on time.” There are a slew of better apps to help with productivity, calendars, and default alarms that come with your phone, thus I wouldn’t recommend this one- so I’ll let you be the judge there.